Mutombo making a differenceBorn in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dikembe Mutombo came to the United States on an academic scholarship to study medicine at Georgetown University. But his career path soon changed after joining the school’s basketball team. Mutombo would go on to play in the NBA for 18 years and become one of the league’s all-time best defensive players. [Lire la suite, http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/10/06/cnnheroes.dikembe.mutombo/index.html?iref=allsearch]

Court orders resumption of Congo war crimes trialThe International Criminal Court on Friday reversed a decision to release a Congolese militia leader and ordered the resumption of his war crimes trial. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo has been accused of conscripting children under the age of 15 into the Patriotic Forces for the Liberation of Congo and « using them to participate actively in hostilities in Ituri, a district of the eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. » [Lire la suite, http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/10/08/netherlands.icc.congo/index.html?iref=allsearch]

WASHINGTON POSTQuestions raised on Congo slaughterThe mass graves are hidden in the darkening shade of a hard-to-reach banana plantation, high up a mountain above the cloud line, at the end of a treacherous dirt track slippery with mud and animal dung. Those who survived say they did not go to the meeting called by Rwandan soldiers. [Lire la suite, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/10/AR2010101001561.html]